Office Hours

Noun · Hacker Culture

Definitions

  1. Scheduled times when a person or team is available for questions, guidance, or reviews without requiring a separate formal meeting request. In engineering orgs and developer platforms, office hours are used for support, mentoring, and stakeholder alignment.

    In plain English: Set times when people are available to answer questions or help others.

    Example: "Platform engineering holds office hours twice a week for teams migrating off the legacy queue."

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